From Under God’s Wing
Occasionally, we’re faced with challenges that help us grow a more stable, stronger sense of self and spirit.
The assertion that the Bible is not entirely perfect is blasphemous to some. Others see flaws in certain fully human sourced words.
God deserves all the Glory for everything… including the “glorious” works from us. God has His “hands” in everything. He’s been helping each of us from before we were born. Our ‘eyes’ are just not always open… because we tend to focus on ourselves.
Bible worshiping is wrong. Bible referencing and God worshipping is perfect. Putting weight on words from God and “God in human flesh” and simply appreciating, in context of being human, the Bible writer’s own words. Letting the Bible writers’ work frame but not dictate to us outside their quoting of God’s Words because ALL of us fully humans are subject to our imperfection in our thinking outside God’s Spirit.
Logic and common sense tells us that we’re mistaken if we think any of the Bible writers were always perfect. Only God’s thoughts and the quotes of Christ are perfect. The disciples remembered Jesus’s words because they received help from the Spirit. But there’s also their own vulnerable emotions, flaws, and perceptions independent of the Spirit. Each of us has a unique perspective… you, your preacher, your friends, your neighbor… ALL of us. God gave each of us a unique spirit and soul. We’re not God’s robots. We’re God’s children… and we need guidance and discipline pretty much ALL the time.
Perhaps Heaven is where we spiritually graduate from our mortal behavior on Earth.
God’s message is simply to love one another. We’ve placed Holy attributes where they don’t belong on imperfect humans. God’s Message to love is simple. Our spirit (emotion) is not.
Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John wrote, “Whoever believes in (Jesus) is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
Jesus was reassuring the disciples that He was of God. They were shaken and scared. They thought he was going to physically take command of EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING. But Jesus had just told them that He was going to die. Jesus wasn’t dictating policy, He was serving His disciples and telling us that He and God are One.
Jesus, in his ministry, showed us how to think and behave. He wasn’t preaching that we would go to hell if we didn’t believe in Him. Some people think and behave like Jesus without knowing or believing in Christ. Jesus said we would not know who is allowed to come to the Father. The least of us would be first.
John was dictating policy. John, in essence, wrote that even if we think and behave like Christ but don’t believe in Him we are condemned. That doesn’t sound like something Jesus would say or do to us. Jesus loves us. John loved us but he was in emotional pain over his best friend’s death. And John knew who killed Jesus and why. John’s words are probably directed toward the Sanhedrin.
Satan preys on our negative emotions when our spirit is low. He simply wants us under his domain, which is hate. God’s domain is Love.
The Bible writers captured God’s messaging. That’s how we learn about God’s love. They also wrote from their own free willed soul exposing their own emotions. The Bible writers were fully human. Under the Spirit, they were God’s chosen messengers.
Truth should be based on empirical evidence not “glory” for fully humans. Glory and worship belongs on the Lord and His Message only.
“Don’t shoot the messenger”, but don’t glorify the messenger either.
Satan’s been after us from his beginning. We know he’s crafty. And we know we’re all vulnerable from time to time because we’re fully human.
We can get a clear message from the Bible and through communion with Creation that God’s plan is a lot less complicated than we are.
So who will make the cut to Heaven? Certainly those that LOVE believing Jesus Christ is their savior… but what about those that LOVE not knowing or believing in Christ. LOVING God (Nature), others and ourselves is the Message Satan has distorted through our selfish nature to create division among us using our pride and passion as a weapon.
Love unifies us and dissolves division’s hate. Jesus was teaching… Love, Truth and Peace. He wasn’t teaching us to separate with our different doctrines and religions. Christ was teaching us to love one another, unconditionally.
Satan successfully added conditions. And we fell for it. Because we’re self-ish and want to glorify fully humans. We do better to leave the Holy “pedestal” to God only.
In summary
We have separate doctrinal and religious divisions because we’re all subject to our own unique thoughts. We added our own complex messages to God’s single and simple message.
We have our egos, emotions and soul. Bible writers accurately captured God’s messaging, but were also subject to their ego and emotion.
Us mere humans can only do the best we can and aren’t able to be perfect for more than a dream… Like when we’re occasionally stabilized under our Maker’s Wing.
We would do better to acknowledge that only one human was Devine.
The rest of every single one of us are not.
Portal/Emanuel/Dear Audience
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